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Platte River Networks (PRN) has been managing Clinton’s private server since June 2013, and since that time they used the service of another company, Datto, Inc., to make back-ups of the data on the server. As a result, they need PRN’s permission to share data.

On this day, David Kendall, Clinton’s personal lawyer, and PRN agree to allow Datto to turn over the data from the backup server to the FBI. This is according to an unname person familiar with Datto’s storage, quoted in McClatchy Newspapersfour days later.

Datto says in a statement that “with the consent of our client and their end user, and consistent with our policies regarding data privacy, Datto is working with the FBI to provide data in conjunction with its investigation.”

However, according to McClatchy Newspapers, the unnamed source says “that Platte River had set up a 60-day retention policy for the backup server, meaning that any emails to which incremental changes were made at least 60 days prior would be deleted and ‘gone forever.’ While the server wouldn’t have been ‘wiped clean,’ the source said, any underlying data likely would have been written over and would be difficult to recover.” (McClatchy Newspapers, 10/6/2015)

It appears that the FBI does get data from Datto over the next couple of weeks, because an October 23, 2015 letter from Datto to the FBI will refer to some Datto back-up data that is now in the FBI’s possession. (US Congress, 9/12/2016)

A Datto back-up device was attached to the server, and the data was backed up to the “cloud” as well. It is unknown if the FBI ever gets useful data from the cloud copy.

According to State Department spokesperson Alec Gerlach, the department sends a letter to Clinton’s legal representative, “[making] an additional request for any records that former Secretary Clinton may have in her possession.” This is due to news reports in September 2015 that additional work-related emails between her and Army General David Petraeus from her first weeks as secretary of state were found. (McClatchy Newspapers, 12/31/2015)

The letter contains a particular request for emails from the first two months Clinton was secretary of state. This is because Clinton claimed that she only started using her private email in March 2009, but in September 2015, some private emails of hers were found from sources other than Clinton dating back to January 2009.

More recently, Clinton’s aides have claimed that Clinton could not turn over emails from this two month period because they had not been captured on her private server. They haven’t explained why this might be. (McClatchy Newspapers, 10/6/2015) It is unknown if any more emails from that time are found by Clinton, and it’s also not known if she still has copies of her emails.